ecocentrus philosophy

A thought. Strange loops are inherent in growth. This is the idea that self referencing, which was once thought to be the antithesis of scientific analysis, is essential for growth. I have been reading a Book: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (commonly GEB) which is a book by Douglas Hofstadter, described by the author as "a metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll".[1]

GEB examines logician Kurt Gödel, artist M. C. Escher and composer Johann Sebastian Bach, comparing their common threads
Through illustration and analysis, the book discusses how self-reference and formal rules allow systems to acquire meaning despite being made of "meaningless" elements.

I think that ecocentrus needs to have inbuilt self referencing systems. Where by any new data entered will automatically generate a string of material which references the new material and references the subsequent strings of material etc etc.

Facebook does this to some degree, if you tag someone in a picture, this generates a series of notifications to those associated with the picture which in turns leads to more tagging and more notifications. As long as the notifications generate a 'buzz' for the user the additional traffic will not be seen as an interruption to them but a welcome distraction.

ecocentrus has the advantage of having 'meaning rich' data. A sighting will have who, where, when and what attached. Each of those coordinates has depth of meaning especially the 'what', ie a species. Any species sighting could trigger a whole range of notifications to neighbors, friends, enthusiasts, specialists, national data centers, gardians and more. Any sighting could also trigger a whole host of reports, which with various threseholds inbuilt could also trigger notifications and even 'generated news'. Generated news could be programmed to come up on the home page if certain thresholds were crossed, ie the number of species in a postcode exceeded that of another postcode. Or the range of a species was found to have increased.

Building in 'strange loops' would create meaning and give the ecocentrus system life.